Fortunately no major fallout from yesterday's crisis so it was a more subdued day at The O, which was just as well really. Got my first peek at the floor plans for the move up town as well as how the Ops restructure is being set out. No immediate concerns and hopefully it will mean a better distribution of the workload in the future. Now, if I ( Read more... )

...I don't like Mondays ( Read more... )

...and now I've got an ulcer to contend with as well. Bah, grumble, grumble etc...

Following a brutal 60 hour week I was hoping things would be a bit more relaxed at The O but the past two days have been taken up trying to sort out problems with the data stemming from stuff incorrectly done by A. N. Other person that I only found out about when my post-production checks didn't stack up. Coupled with the seemingly international ( Read more... )

Sired from chiselwright

( The What Kind Of Vampire? Test )

Hope I'm not woken up up at 2am by screaming foxes again. Stared bleary eyed out of the window in the wee small hours this morning and saw two of the little buggers chasing each other up and down the road. Have they no concept of time ( Read more... )

Got into The O early this morning to try and clear some of the backlog. Checked my mails to find that my mate Phil who had moved out to Munich was in hospital after being hit on the head by falling masonry that had come down from four story's above! Fortunately he is ok but will take a fair bit of time to recover from what I've been told. His ( Read more... )

One whipped off chiselwright
( The Nerd/Geek/Dork Test )

Hey, it might not sound like much but it could be the key to cracking a tricky little data validation.

Plus my stock options have cashed in to the tune of 670 quid, so today was one of those very rare GOOD DAYSTM. Rah!

Can't believe how insanely hot it felt today. Had the back door open and the fan on almost all day yet it was still over 80 degrees (or over 27 in new money) in the lounge! I'm just glad I wasn't in The O today that's all. Managed to get a few jobs done around the place despite the heat, although it did lapse into an mp3 downloading session when ( Read more... )